The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers: And Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution |
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Page xi
... foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who get on horse - back because they cannot walk : they bellow , becaufe they cannot fpeak ...
... foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who get on horse - back because they cannot walk : they bellow , becaufe they cannot fpeak ...
Page xix
... foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . Agreeable inflexions and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they a- rife from , or are confiftent with juft fpeaking , are deferving of attention ...
... foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . Agreeable inflexions and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they a- rife from , or are confiftent with juft fpeaking , are deferving of attention ...
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... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecu- ring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ...
... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecu- ring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ...
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... foul of great- nefs are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath ... fouls ; without this the highest ftate of life is infipid , and with it the lowest is a paradise . CHAP . CHA P. V. ...
... foul of great- nefs are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath ... fouls ; without this the highest ftate of life is infipid , and with it the lowest is a paradise . CHAP . CHA P. V. ...
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... foul . HE who tells a lye is not fenfible how great a task he un- dertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reafon , because they understand every ...
... foul . HE who tells a lye is not fenfible how great a task he un- dertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reafon , because they understand every ...
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affurance againſt army Balaam becauſe beft blifs bofom breaft Brutus Cæfar caufe Dæmons defire eafy eyes fafe faid my uncle fame fecure feems feen fenfe ferve fervice fhade fhall fhew fhould fide fince firft fleep fmiles fome fomething fool foon foul fpeak fpirit FRAM ftand ftate ftill ftrange fubject fuch fuffer fure happineſs happy hath heart Heav'n himſelf honour houfe IAGO intereft itſelf juft king laft lefs Long Parliaments Lord MACD meaſures mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf nature never o'er obferve occafion paffion pafs pain perfon pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffible poor pow'r praife prefent purfue raiſe reafon refpect reft rife Scythians SHAKESPEAR ſhall ſhe SIR JOHN ſpeak ſtate STERL Syphax Theana thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro uncle Toby uſe virtue whofe wife yourſelf